Chasing the Light - Blackout Poetry Notes

Utter Peace

We keep marveling
at the utter peace at hand
as we left the rush
and the emotional turmoil of work.

A blind fall
had her frail moorings
open suddenly,
and a burst
of faint music evoked
incommunicable emotion,
like a wave trailing in her wake.

You are fierce
and quite capable so
try for yourself.

It is as if magic
floods this life.

I told myself,
I must find myself in love
I knew it would happen - 
a cataclysmic tide of acceptance.

Spend time in my imagination,
peer into the crack in the door
walk directly into my
vast space of words.

Life is quite uncertain
but I am resolved
to wait
for a brighter sun.

Grit your teeth.
for in life,
sprouting in the darkness
are bright
petals of light.

I can only,
day to day, fight to be
more confident
and good for myself,
no matter what other people say.

I glanced up
and there above me,
in smothering embrace
of the August night
was the moon,
pregnant with light.